[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL: "CHamoru women discuss [Guam] issues at UN"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

CHamoru women discuss island issues at UN

by Louella Losing 
Guam Daily Post
October 12, 2018

A delegation of six CHamoru women testified before the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) of the United Nations on Wednesday EDT. They highlighted the militarization of the territory and advocated for the right of the indigenous CHamoru people to self-determination.

Alaina Arroyo, for the University of San Francisco Pacific Islander Collective; Ana Bordallo, for Famoksaiyan; Julia Faye Munoz, for the Diablo Valley College Pacific Islands Students Association; Leilani Rania Ganser, for Reed College; Samantha Barnett, for Independent Guåhan; and Tiara Na’Puti, for Guåhan Coalition for Peace and Justice; spoke before the committee on topics ranging from the island's health issues to militarization.

“It was incredibly powerful that each of the delegates was a young woman. It was an indescribable experience speaking in front of so many powerful people about a subject that is so deeply personal,” Ganser told The Guam Daily Post.



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For the entire article, see
https://www.postguam.com/news/local/chamoru-women-discuss-island-issues-at-un/article_93ce8a06-cd1e-11e8-bdee-2f6bfe5efe45.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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